Category: Sexy

Amy King collaborated with the Guardian to curate this collection of poems. She is the author of five books of poetry, received the 2015 WNBA award, is a founding member of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and teaches Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.

The only thing I know, something I must try to communicate to the future, is that a more complex and fatal humor defines the body politic. Amy King’s “Perspective” helps illustrate just how nasty and troubling it is...

Amy King’s workshops and critiques are as intelligent and intuitive as she is. She’s introduced me to conceptual ideas that seem at first complex and perhaps over my head—but the way she breaks them down and incorporates them step by step into fun and challenging exercises makes them so accessible that I find myself pondering and using them in my own poetics again and again. I’ve worked with her several times, and I highly recommend Amy’s teaching style—learned yet lucid, erudite yet playful. She’s a joy!

Out of the masculine guitar-as-erection sound of rock hard hard rock there emerged two women whose voices are iconic: the cool purety of Grace Slick that soared on the updrafts generated by all that electricity to sing a drug-enhanced surreality and the hot distorted whiskey voice of Janis Joplin that, when she sang the blues of blighted love, wailed for a generation. I know I’m pushing it here, but in the music of Amy King’s voice I hear an heir to those two women.

“This, of course, comes as no surprise to those familiar with King’s work. It is uninterested in evenness and regularity. It is adroit and sharp and scream-y (often in literal caps) and rampaging. You don’t disgorge a poem entitled “PUSSY PUSSY SOCHI QUEER PUSSY PUTIN SOCHI QUEER QUEER PUSSY” because you are trying to lull…

“Poetry is the water, the planetary pull, the sky’s embrace, and the song of oars; it is the potential of all that is human, which is comprised of atoms from farthest reaching stars, and will not cease until, perhaps, the last person no longer knows words, says the Romantic humanist in me. It is in…

Please Come to this wonderful off-site event featuring an array of talents and voices. Details can be find on the facebook event page here. What a more poignant time to be in D.C. to listen to great writers in troubling times.

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“But King’s landscape is not Eliot’s. She is a poet of the postmodern, who writes, yes, about the missing, but what’s missing may simply be misplaced among the detritus of millennial clutter.” Do we know what’s missing or misplaced? Are we the Missing Museum? Read the Kenyon Review’s intimate critique of “The Missing Museum” and the gems it…

You want powerful women in poetry? You’ve got it! One night, and one night only, we feature six women who are killing the game. Six women that won’t let their voices go unheard. Come, watch this incredible journey of women who have left a stain in the literary word game. November 9 @ 6:00…

“The immediate and the inaccessible eye one another in the halls, exhibits of history both natural and not.” “These poems do feel tied to the zeitgeist; Vladmir Putin rides past on a steed as “PUSSIES RIOT IN THE SNOW / THIS WINTER OLYMPICS” early in the book. Later, King compares wine with books: “ICE…

Sunday, October 2nd at 6 PM-7:30 at the Bowery Poetry Club. 308 Bowery, New York, New York, 10012 Tickets: $10 online. ,$15 at the door. http://www.brownpapertickets.com Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Womens National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the…

December 10th, 2016 12:30-4:30pm at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center Sleepy Hollow, NY The feminine encounter with beauty, love and self-sacrifice is typically depicted in a positive, nearly angelic light. However the feminine encounter with self-knowledge has often been depicted as a negative event, bringing the fall of man and worse: a disastrous ruination…

December 9th, 2016 7:30 pm At the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center Sleepy Hollow, NY “Amy King and Camille Rankine will read from their most recent collection and discuss what they think it means to be a woman poet in our time. Amy King “applies pressure to the boundaries of “queer” poetry, while finding inspiration in…

Tuesday October 25, 2016 07:00 pm The Center for Fiction 17 E. 47th Street (between Fifth and Madison) New York, NY 10017 This event brings together novelists Bonnie Nadzam andPorochista Khakpour, social change advocate and journalist Kavita Das, and Amy King of VIDA, to discuss sexism and harassment in the publishing industry and writing programs, and what can, and…

I’m reading THIS SATURDAY w some very cool poets! Sat, September 24, 7:00pm – 9:00pm “The New International: Working Poets of the World, Unite!” is in association with100TPC.org (100 Thousand Poets for Change), which is why the date of Sept. 24th is important, as this poetry reading will be part of many others taking place…

EXCERPTS from “Folder“: I have given up on importance. The only things awake to awareness are things that no longer compute when we walk to banks or teach signs in classrooms to make sense of dark matter. E equals life times time times how often you find love. ~~~~ This feeling is adjacent to a…